Abstract
Sweden's liberal sex-role ideology and qofficial policy of counteracting sex-role learning through the schools are described, together with Swedish attitudes and policies regarding sex education. A study of the correspondence between policy and practice, based on parent questionnaires and teacher observation and interviews, is reported. It was fobund that parents tended to affirm some non-sex-determined standards, while reinforcing sex-typed behavior somewhat more than cross-sex-typed behavior. Nearly all teachers had made some etfort to counteract sex roles, but they often exhibited sex determination in their own classroom behavior. Almost all parents and teachers had provided some sex education; a third of the teachers had commented on the nature of gender. Provision of sex-education was fbund to be positivelv related to sexrole contravention.
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